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Revise HTML

Im starting to develop a new site. I was wondering if someone could look at my markup I have set just to revise on what I have so far.
I want to make sure the markup is correct before I start styling my CSS.
Image is attached Below. Thank you.

Im starting to develop a new site. I was wondering if someone could look at my markup I have set just to revise on what I have so far.
I want to make sure the markup is correct before I start styling my CSS.
Image is attached Below. Thank you.

I use the above FireFox addon which gives comprehensive validation reports which can be viewed by clicking on the either red or green icon in the bottom right hand browser corner.

Your page gives 5 errors:
Line 34: there is no attribute "ALT"
Line 25: required attribut "ALT" not specified
Line 34: title is not a member of a group specified for any attribute
Line 34: element <H2FEATURE undefine
Line 34: end tag for element which is not open

The alt attribute is for displaying alternate text when an image is not available, and therefore only applies to images (and should always be specified even if blank) and not <a>s - if you want a tooltip popup when hovering the menu, use the title attribute instead.

The numbering of the header tag <h> should be in the form of a hierarchy, with a <h1> being the most important heading and subheadings below this decreasing in number - having the first heading as a <h3>, with no <h2>s and <h1>s preceding it does not make much semantic sense.

Other touchups are removing title attributes from the links, as it's completely wasteful to provide an exact duplicate of what the link already says. There's little that's more annoying for a user than to hover over a link and find that the tooltip is a complete waste of their time.

Does that go as far as using header and footer terms? Because they directly imply that they should be in the upper and lower positions. What other terms can be used if implications of position aren't to be implied?